This is the same
Milluk word as Lolly Metcalf’s translation for ‘Indian money’. She has a stronger glottal stop the second
time that she says the word in both this interview segment and that interview
segment. The second time that she says
the word in both interview segments, it is also more obvious that the glottal
stop begins the third syllable. Instead
of being between the diphthong [ai] and the consonant [m], the glottal stop is simultaneous
with the beginning of the [m]. This is
phonetic evidence that in phonemic terms this is a glottalized m /m’/, which we
would type with the glottalization mark over the letter, if we could.

In our table of
transcriptions, it is only with the instant phonetic Englishizations that we
show anything that reflects the fact that Melville Jacobs often wrote the last
syllable of this word as | mis |, making it the same as the English word
‘miss’. We might do the same in
transcribing at least some of Lolly Metcalf’s four tokens of the word in these
two interview segments, here for ‘beads’ and there for ‘Indian money’.

There are only two
times in the Milluk texts that the Milluk word hadai’m@s is translated as ‘beads’,
while there are on the order of forty-nine times in the Milluk texts that it is
translated as ‘money’. A number of those
times the words ‘large dentalia’ are in parentheses next to the word
‘money’.